New Years Day

Day started sunny but clouded over and a touch of rain. Noticed that the cold weather pretty much wiped out the calendula - this is the coldest winter since they've been growing here - and icey; see what the ice looked like on the rosebush.

Wormed goats. Cleaned up the greenhouse; removed the dead tomato plant and pruned peppers. And started some seeds (first this winter): 4 kinds of onions and 6 kinds of lettuce, one pot each.

Made a good, warming stew out of odds and ends - stored onions, garlic, potatoes, butternut, fresh tomatoes, canned tomato sauce; purchased ginger, spices, peanut butter; from greenhouse and garden, jalapenos, leek, bok choy, kohlrabi; already in fridge: carrots, a bit of white beet, a little chicken.